Erica Spindler > Erica's Quotes

“I really should come with a warning label.”
― Tom Upton

“No matter how innocent the story being relayed to me is, I can twist it into something pretty damn frightening. I’ve learned the real trick is not sharing these versions with those relaying the story. It tends to make people avoid me.”
― Erica Spindler

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

“Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
― Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier